Save the World from Your Couch with Open-Source Mapping
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This document provides an overview of open-source mapping and humanitarian mapping. It discusses how OpenStreetMap allows volunteers to collaboratively map areas of the world through tracing satellite imagery or GPS data. Examples are given of how OSM mapping helped relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake by mapping roads, buildings, and aid locations. The document also describes the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team's Missing Maps initiative and projects mapping refugee camps like Bidibidi. Finally, it outlines the Women Connect initiative to train local women mappers in Tanzania, Paraguay, and Peru to map issues affecting women and empower them through open data.
Save the World from Your Couch with Open-Source Mapping
- 1. Save the World From Your Couch With Open-Source Mapping Leila Alderman All Things Open 2019
- 2. Hello!
- 3. If you can trace lines with a mouse, you can help save lives!
- 4. Agenda ● Why does open-source mapping matter? ● What is OpenStreetMap? ● What is humanitarian mapping? ● 2010 Haiti earthquake ● Bidibidi ● Women Connect ○ Tanzania ○ Paraguay ○ Peru ● How to get started with humanitarian mapping
- 5. Why does open-source mapping matter?
- 6. Free maps are ubiquitous
- 7. Free maps are ubiquitous …..Right?
- 8. Newsflash: They aren’t really free!
- 9. They don’t map everywhere
- 10. They lack detail
- 11. They don’t map key humanitarian features
- 12. “For most of human history, maps have been very exclusive. Only a few people got to make maps, and they were carefully guarded, and they were not participatory. Marie Price, the first female president of the American Geographical Society
- 14. It’s a map!
- 15. The Wikipedia of mapping ● “OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the whole world that is being built by volunteers largely from scratch and released with an open-content license.” ● OSM actively encourages new and interesting uses of its map data
- 16. Adding map data ● Detailed OSM data can be added by uploading GPS tracks recorded while walking, biking, or driving ● Mapping can also be done by tracing over aerial imagery, called “armchair mapping”
- 17. Remember Tica?
- 20. San Francisco, CA, USA Google Maps OpenStreetMap
- 21. Chicago, IL, USA Google Maps OpenStreetMap
- 23. Hiking trails in Germany
- 24. Inline skate across Germany!
- 25. OpenSeaMap
- 26. OpenStreetMap is used everywhere
- 28. What is humanitarian mapping?
- 29. Humanitarian mapping goals ● Provide maps to support humanitarian disaster relief ● Encourage community development ● Develop open-source apps and tools for Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, UN agencies, and local NGOs and communities
- 30. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team ● Founded as a US nonprofit in 2010 after the idea was proven during the Haiti earthquake ● Provides many different mapping support services ● Responds to global crises
- 31. Missing Maps Initiative ● Each year, natural disasters kill nearly 100,000 people and affect 200 million, many in places that are literally missing from any map ● Proactive mapping initiative to map high vulnerability areas where data is scarce
- 34. Haiti ● The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere ● Low construction standards and no building codes ● Officially designated “economically vulnerable”
- 35. 2010 earthquake aftermath ● 7.0 magnitude earthquake followed by 52 aftershocks of 4.5 or greater ● 90% of the buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince, were destroyed ● Approximately 160,000 deaths and 3 million people affected
- 36. Relief efforts ● Many countries dispatched rescue and medical teams and engineers ● The single-runway airport was handling planes landing or taking off every two minutes
- 37. Damaged infrastructure hampered aid efforts ● All Port-au-Prince hospitals were severely damaged or destroyed ● Many roads and bridges were blocked or broken ● Main road between Port-au-Prince and Jacmel remained blocked for ten days after the earthquake
- 38. OpenStreetMap volunteer efforts ● 500 OSM volunteers used daily updates of satellite imagery to plot accurate maps of Haiti ● OSM volunteers mapped destroyed bridges, collapsed buildings, refugee camps, and road obstacles
- 39. OpenStreetMap successes ● Search and rescue teams were able to use these maps to aid efforts from day one ● Files were updated several times per hour to keep up with the rapidly improving maps
- 42. “The most amazing thing to me about this global response... is the degree to which volunteers have been able to make a significant impact on the relief situation while sitting at their own desks, thousands of miles away. Schuyler Erle, co-founder of OpenLayers and author of Mapping Hacks and Google Maps Hacks
- 43. Bidibidi
- 44. South Sudanese Civil War ● Lasted from 2013 until 2018 ● 400,000 estimated deaths ● More than 4 million displaced
- 45. Bidibidi ● The world’s largest refugee camp in 2017 ● During the peak of the crisis, over 7,000 people were arriving per day
- 46. Refugee crisis ● Hundreds of people lacking water ● Rapid spread of HIV ● Refugees tied to trees so that they can’t make food distribution times
- 47. HOT mapathon ● In July 2017, HOT led a mapathon effort funded by the U.S. Department of State ● Collaborated with Doctors Without Borders to train refugees to map ● Unique opportunity to have the direct beneficiaries of humanitarian mapping work and learn alongside aid workers
- 48. Mapathon successes ● Over 1,660 buildings and 3,000 meters of roads mapped ● Surveyed communities to map lighting, education, movement, safety, water, and hygiene
- 49. Remote mapathons + local knowledge ● Maps were drawn remotely based on satellite imagery by the global HOT community ● Local routes were added by recording the movement of local motorcycle taxis
- 50. Bidibidi: Transformation to a city ● Today, Bidibidi is a city of a quarter million people that is twice the size of Paris ● Uganda is investing in permanent infrastructure and buildings
- 51. Ongoing mapping efforts ● With smartphones, map data can be crowdsourced 24/7 ● Map data are openly available for fellow refugees and for host country governments, UN, and NGOs
- 53. Women Connect
- 54. 2018 USAID Women Connect Challenge ● USAID == United States Agency for International Development ● HOT was awarded a grant as one of 9 winners out of more than 500 applicants from 89 countries
- 55. HOT’s Women Connect project ● HOT plans to train young women in three communities to collect and plot data using open-source maps: ○ Tanzania ○ Paraguay ○ Peru
- 56. Project goals ● Empower and support female mappers in areas where leaders are not typically female ● Bridge the digital gender divide ● Create data on gendered problems
- 58. “Maps are ultimately embodied subjects that cannot be considered separate from the people that created them. “Quantifying gendered participation in OpenStreetMap”
- 59. Why do female mappers matter?
- 61. FGM in Tanzania ● 15% of women in Tanzania have undergone FGM ● FGM can lead to prolonged bleeding, infection, infertility, and even death ● FGM is illegal in Tanzania, but few resources are provided to prevent it
- 62. Mugumu safe house ● Helps girls running away from home and forced FGM ● 230 girls arrived last year
- 63. Difficulties ● The safe house receives tips on girls who are in danger ● Rural Tanzania is poorly mapped, making it very difficult to find the girls
- 64. Tanzania Development Trust ● Using OpenStreetMap, the workers at the safe house are able to map the surrounding area ● Aims to train 400 community members in rural areas in 2019
- 66. Geochicas ● Organization of women mappers in Latin America ● Mapped femicides in Nicaragua ● Ranked public spaces based on violence against women in Mexico
- 67. Paraguay project ● Aims to train 100 community members to map key vulnerability indicators for women ● Mapping informal shelters and reproductive health services
- 70. Peru ● Urban, wealthy areas of Peru are well mapped, but other areas aren’t ● Cusco has one of the highest incidence rates of gender violence in Peru
- 71. “As a teenager who lives in Cusco, I have felt on many occasions that my opinion has been devalued or ignored... I have not had many opportunities to present my ideas and for them to be been considered by a group of people who have the power to decide and implement changes. Abril Gomez, student at GAL School
- 72. Global Active Learning (GAL) School ● Training 150 high school students in Cusco to identify and map under-represented social issues ● Smartphones provided to students by a grant from HOT
- 73. Mapping sexist publicity ● High schoolers mapped and categorized sexist advertising that they found ● Categorized the advertising ○ Objectification of women ○ Perpetuation of gender roles ○ Unrealistic expectations of female bodies
- 75. Giving girls a voice ● The students created campaigns based on their maps of sexist publicity and behavior ● Presented as part of an international festival and to local government representatives
- 76. How to get started with humanitarian mapping
- 77. Mapping is easy! ● Anyone with a computer and internet access can map ● No coding or GIS experience required ● Validation means that you don’t need to worry about lack of experience
- 78. OpenStreetMap ● Go to https://openstreetmap.org ● Click the “Sign Up” button in the upper right corner
- 79. Mapping tutorial ● When you first sign in and click “Edit”, OSM gives you a walkthrough
- 82. Logging into the HOT Tasking Manager ● Go to https://tasks.hotosm.org ● Logging in uses the same account that you created for OSM
- 84. HOT Tasking Manager ● Used for collaborative mapping efforts ● Divides up the area to be mapped into small squares ● Tracks project progress and prevents duplicate work
- 86. Map of current projects
- 87. Project details ● Project teams create detailed instructions ● Lists out any project-specific guidelines, such as which tags should be used
- 88. Project map ● The map shows the current project area with color coded squares indicating progress ● Locked squares are currently being worked on ● Select a white square or let the Tasking Manager pick a random square
- 89. Selecting an area to map ● After selecting a square to map, the OSM map editor will open in a new window with a pink square overlay ● This square indicates the mapping area that you have checked out ● Don’t map outside of this square!
- 90. Recording your work ● After you’ve finished editing the map and you’ve saved your edits, go back to the HOT Tasking Manager screen ● Add a note to describe your work ● If you finished mapping the entire task area, click “Mark as completely mapped” ● Otherwise, click “Stop mapping” so that someone else can pick this up later
- 91. Additional Resources ● OpenStreetMap wiki ○ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org ○ OSM’s wiki, which has lots of great information ● OpenStreetMap US Slack ○ https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/ ○ OSM US-based Slack chat ○ Amazing resource for asking questions! ● Learn OSM ○ http://learnosm.org ○ great beginner’s guide ● Mapping guides ○ https://labs.mapbox.com/mapping/ ○ OSM mapping guides, from beginner to advanced
- 92. Additional Resources ● OpenStreetMap Wiki ○ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org ○ Lots of great information and detail ● Slack channel for OpenStreetMap US ○ https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/ ○ Amazing resource for asking questions! ○ If you’re local, there are channels for #nc and #nc-triangle
- 93. Go forth and save the world! (from the comfort of your couch)
- 94. Getting around with OSM
- 95. Maps.me
- 96. Navit
- 97. Locus
- 98. Magic Earth
- 99. OsmAnd
- 100. Just as good as Google ● Turn-by-turn voice navigation ● Night display mode ● Lanes for each intersection ● Public transit routes
- 101. Map style
- 102. Offline mapping ● Maps can be downloaded for areas over WiFi at home ● Greatly reduce your mobile data use
- 103. Advanced filters
- 104. Route details
- 105. Routing settings
- 106. Find POIs along your route ● Search for points of interest along a route ● Select the type of POI and radius
- 107. Radius ruler
- 108. Measure distance
- 109. Wikipedia
- 110. Travel guides
- 111. Edit OSM
- 112. Privacy